i dun think spillage is covered by warranty. but i think u can enquire & see the solution for this. meanwhile i don't think it's advisable to even start up ur laptop after a spill as it may short circuit more areas??? 

^ u shouldn't have format ur laptop lol. IF spillage, what u should do is to wipe off any visible spillage, turn off ur laptop(off completely including the plug), then if u know how to do it u open up the laptop and let the spillage dry(if just plain water, if chocolate/milk then thing can get worse). By the means of drying i mean just dry it under fan just like that. Don put it under hot sun or else it may spoil

just tell them out of sudden laptop hang den force restart. den after force restart keyboard went haywire. den try reformat den become lidat? try to act normal. its the best u can do 

haha hopefully noone works in asus service here reading this

actually if u check the parts price from internet it's way cheaper like err rm 50-80(not sure but around there) but plus service charge everything usually they charge 150n above? Hmmm ya make sure very dry. Use hair dryer around the area should be ok kua?

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Added on January 3, 2012, 11:08 pm
hmmm around that price la bro. Speed ah not really lah but u will notice ur system won't slow down that fast when u are loading alot of programs (more than 10 tabs in mozilla, game program in background n playing hd movies?) usually when a program's command or action is being processed it (cpu) will access the fastest type of memory, which is the cpu cache. If the size is too big/already full, it will then use up the ram, if the ram is exhausted, den the system will access the slowest type of memory, the hard disc. Lol. This is what i understand lah. Anyone can correct me if i'm wrong

so no parts replacement lah? good 'show' xD btw i'm getting tl at this laptop when gaming de. Just now tried gaming modern warfare 3. Zzz 4times try all end up hang have to force reboot. 4th time i fed up de straight off plug n sleep i wonder what cause this. it's random n occurs in any game the game will freeze n audio will distort like hell

Glad to hear that  Next time remember to switch off ur notebook immediately if u spilled something on it again *touchwood*
It occurs to few ppl here before but I've never experienced it.I finished all 2011 games adi and still not even once.Not sure wat causes it until now
It is quite significant when u run applications.U can google around or youtube about the difference between a SSD and HDD.I would say if u have the budget,SSD is a good investment although I believe booting a pc below 15 seconds is not a main and critical feature (I mean come on,cant u even spare a minute to boot a pc?Why do u even need to boot a pc in 15 secs?Just let it sleep or hibernate if u really wanna save time )